All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 13

  • KLP sleepers ready for installation in Rotterdam (Photo Lankhorst Rail)
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    Network Rail to study composite sleeper profiles

    2023-10-18T11:00:00Z

    UK: Network Rail has awarded Dutch company Lankhorst Rail a contract to assist with the development of the next generation of railway sleeper. The infrastructure manager plans to use Lankhorst’s KLP composite sleepers manufactured from recycled plastic reinforced with steel to investigate the bending stiffness, flexibility ...

  • Total Rail Solutions
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    Readypower acquires Total Rail Solutions

    2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

    UK: Rail and infrastructure services company Readypower Group Ltd has acquired 100% of the share capital of plant hire, subcontracting and labour provision company Total Rail Solutions. RGL said TRS needed additional investment as it had been ‘struggling financially for some time in a difficult market’, with ...

  • HyperTunnel and AmcoGiffen sign UK exclusive distributor agreement (Photo AmcoGiffen)
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    AmcoGiffen to offer HyperTunnel tunnelling technology

    2023-10-17T11:00:00Z

    UK: Contractor AmcoGiffen has signed an exclusive distributor agreement to use HyperTunnel’s robot underground construction technology in the UK rail sector. This includes digital twins, robotics, 3D printing and digital underground surveying, supported by AI and VR. Applications could included the enhancement, repair, rehabilitation and monitoring ...

  • Magor & Undy station aerial view (Image TfW)
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    Five stations proposed in southeast Wales

    2023-10-16T11:00:00Z

    UK: Transport for Wales has begun public consultation on plans for five new stations between Cardiff Central and Severn Tunnel Junction. These would be at Cardiff East, Newport West, Somerton, Llanwern and Magor & Undy. Comments are also invited on train services between Cardiff, Bristol and ...

  • Rosehill Rail anti-trespass panels have been installed at Tri-Rail's Fort Lauderdale Airport station (Photo Rosehill Polymers)
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    Rosehill Polymers targets exports following financing deal

    2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

    UK: Rosehill Polymers Group has finalised a deal with Virgin Money and UK Export Finance to complete a refinancing and management buyout and accelerate international growth. Rosehill Rail anti-trespass panels have been installed to discourage people from walking on the tracks at Tri-Rail’s Fort Lauderdale Airport station ...

  • White Rose Station 3
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    UK railway news round-up

    2023-10-12T04:00:00Z

    This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

  • Eurostar train on High Speed 1
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    HS1 Ltd issues manifesto for rail growth

    2023-10-11T09:52:00Z

    UK: Channel Tunnel to London high speed line concessionaire HS1 Ltd has published a nine-point manifesto setting out policy interventions that it says the next government needs to make ‘to ensure the UK’s rail system is fit for the future’. These are to: capitalise on the ...

  • VTG Knorr-Bremse iWagon
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    iWagon tests wheel flat prevention system

    2023-10-11T04:00:00Z

    UK: Leasing company VTG and rolling stock subsystem manufacturer Knorr-Bremse are undertaking trials with ‘iWagons’; these are vehicles which have been equipped with a range of smart digital technology and components. The first three iWagons are JPA tank wagons, which have been modified at Tarmac’s ...

  • Willenhall station site during demolition work
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    Black Country station works to restart

    2023-10-10T11:00:00Z

    UK: Work on the future Willenhall and Darlaston stations is to resume, after Transport for West Midlands reached an agreement with Kier which acquired the rail activities of contractor Buckingham Group after it went into administration during August. TfWM said the pause in work and ‘refresh’ ...

  • Freight train
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    HS2 cancellation is ‘worst possible outcome for rail freight’

    2023-10-10T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Freight Group has condemned the government’s decision to truncate High Speed 2 in the West Midlands, describing it as ‘the worst possible outcome for rail freight’. RFG Director General Maggie Simpson said ‘scrapping HS2 whilst still allowing its trains to run on the ...

  • QTS rail careers event
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    Contractor showcases rail career opportunities to school pupils

    2023-10-09T04:00:00Z

    UK: Multi-disciplinary rail contractor QTS Group has held its second Future of Rail event to engage with young people and promote careers in the industry. More than 300 pupils from local schools attended the event held at the Midland Railway heritage line on September 27, which ...

  • Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram at Headbolt Lane
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    Battery trains could take Merseyrail to places it couldn’t previously reach

    2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

    UK: Speaking to Rail Business UK at the opening of Headbolt Lane station in Kirkby, Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram expressed enthusiasm for extending Merseyrail services to more destinations by using battery power to avoid the need for electrification. Merseyrail trains reach Headbolt Lane using ...

  • Merseyrail at Headbolt Lane
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    Headbolt Lane station opens with battery train service

    2023-10-05T13:42:00Z

    UK: Headbolt Lane station in Kirkby opened on October 5, with services operated by Merseyrail and Northern terminating from opposite directions. Services run by the two operators previously terminated end-on at Kirkby, where the 750 V DC third rail electrification on the Merseyrail network ends. Merseyrail’s ...

  • Cullybackey reopening photo
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    UK railway news round-up

    2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

    This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

  • Green banner repeater (Photo Network Rail)
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    Regulator approves Hitachi Rail acquisition of Thales GTS

    2023-10-05T03:59:00Z

    UK: The Competition & Markets Authority has approved Hitachi Rail’s proposed €1·7bn purchase of Thales’ Ground Transportation business following Hitachi’s offer to sell its existing main line signalling business in the UK, France and Germany. CMA will need to approve the purchaser, and key customers will ...

  • Rishi Sunak
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    Remaining phases of High Speed 2 cancelled

    2023-10-04T12:32:00Z

    UK: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the cancellation of the parts of the High Speed 2 rail programme not already under construction. 

  • HS2 impression
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    Responses to High Speed 2 cancellation

    2023-10-04T11:37:00Z

    UK: Rail Business UK rounds up the key points from responses to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the cancellation of the next stages of the High Speed 2 project

  • Freightliner has officially opened an Operational Training Academy in Doncaster
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    Freightliner opens Doncaster training centre to support ETCS roll-out

    2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

    UK: Freightliner has officially opened an Operational Training Academy in Doncaster to prepare its northern-based drivers for the introduction of ETCS Level 2 between London King’s Cross and Stoke Tunnel near Grantham as part of the East Coast Digital Programme. A similar facility for southern-based drivers ...

  • Transpennine Route Upgrade
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    Post-Covid rail sector must understand what it does best, says Haines

    2023-10-03T11:55:00Z

    UK: ‘We in the rail sector must be objective and honest about what we are good at’, Network Rail Chief Executive Andrew Haines told a conference in Birmingham on October 3, as he reflected on how the industry can plot its way through the uncertainty of the post-Covid period.

  • Dr Francis Cowe, USW, Matthew Tucker, Coleg y Cymoedd, Louise Pennell, USW
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    Railway engineering degree apprenticeship announced

    2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

    UK: The University of South Wales and Coleg y Cymoedd have announced a railway engineering degree apprenticeship programme. The four-year course will give apprentices the opportunity to gain a university-accredited engineering degree. The first course will start in January 2024, and it will then run annually ...